Burbank, Illinois
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Stickney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60459. The Survey maps it on the Palos Park quadrangle. 29,439 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresBurbank grew from 28,462 to 29,439 between 1980 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 28,462 | |
| 2010 | 28,925 | |
| 2020 | 29,439 | +514 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 27 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1890 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1928 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Burbank in 2005, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 20 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Burbank: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dolese and Shepard Crushed Stone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Silbrico Expanded Perilite Plant | Perlite | Producer | ||
| Worth Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
32 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burbank in 32 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 22 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain, 4 hail, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | $1,000 | Significant tree damage was reported with two to three foot diameter trees uprooted and blown down. Some of the trees fell onto houses. Minor sign damage was reported to a business on 95th Street. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | A measured wind gust to 72 mph was reported in Burbank. |
| April 2025 | Flood | Burbank | - | A few reports of street flooding were received from Oak Lawn and yard flooding was reported in Burbank. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | A large tree limb had fallen onto parked cars at 89th Pl and Melvina Ave in Oak Lawn. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | A tree was blown down onto a garage. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | A wind gust to 70 mph was measured. |
| February 2024 | Hail | Burbank | - | A Cooperative observer reported 1 hail fell in Burbank from 8:30 to 8:35 PM CST. They also noted a 41 mph peak wind gust. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | A wind gust to 60 mph was measured. |
| July 2024 | Heavy Rain | Burbank | - | Measured rainfall of 0.80 inches was reported in 10 minutes. |
| July 2024 | Heavy Rain | Burbank | - | Measured rainfall of 1.00 inches was reported in 16 minutes. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | A pine tree was uprooted on S 55th Ave near W 89th St in Burbank. Wind magnitude and time were estimated based on radar. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | A wind gust to 60 mph was measured in Burbank. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | A wind gust to 60 mph was measured in Burbank. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | A wind gust to 65 mph was measured in Burbank. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | Tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2020 | Heavy Rain | Burbank | - | Rainfall of 1.10 inches was measured in 10 minutes. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | Wind gusts to 65 mph were measured. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | A wind gust to 65 mph was measured in Burbank. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | Trees were uprooted or snapped and roof damage was reported. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | A wind gust to 66 mph was measured in Burbank. |
| August 2019 | Heavy Rain | Burbank | - | Rainfall of 1.01 inches was measured in 15 minutes. |
| May 2019 | Heavy Rain | Burbank | - | Storm total rainfall of 2.56 inches was measured. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | Widespread tree damage was reported near 90th Street and Ridgeland Avenue. A flag pole was snapped off. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Burbank | - | Pea to penny size hail was reported in Burbank. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Burbank | - | Reported at the intersection of 87th Street and Cicero Avenue. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | Large tree limbs, trees, power line and power poles were knocked down. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | no account filed |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Burbank | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burbank | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgeview | 1.7 miles | 24 | |
| Oak Lawn | 2.0 miles | 27 | |
| Chicago Ridge | 2.2 miles | 27 | |
| Bedford Park | 2.3 miles | 24 | |
| Hickory Hills | 2.5 miles | 27 | |
| Hometown | 2.5 miles | 25 | |
| Justice | 3.2 miles | 27 | |
| Worth | 3.2 miles | 27 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Burbank | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q578150 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422262. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.











